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Attendance Officer and Cover Manager

Dene Magna School, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, GL17 0DU

This job expired on 5 August 2024 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  2 September 2024

• Closing date

  5 August 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  29 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 37 hours a week, 7:30am - 3:30pm Monday to Friday, term time only
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,979 - £27,334
• Actual salary: £22,602 - £24,327
• Pay scale: Grade 5, points 11 - 14

What skills and experience we're looking for

PURPOSE

• To contribute to raising achievement by improving school attendance
• To provide a specialist service to assist the school in meeting their obligations and targets in relation to school attendance, especially persistent absence
• To promote positive attitudes by students and families towards education and to ensure that parents are made fully aware of their statutory responsibilities
• To make unsupervised contact with families, where appropriate, in their own homes and elsewhere to assess the reasons impacting on the attendance of individual students, facilitating their return or access to regular full time education provision
• To establish and develop a professional service to support the school in raising attendance, investigating persistent absences and improving punctuality. Help us diminish the gap in attendance for certain key groups such as PP students
• To support our PP students and their families in all areas, including allocating funds where needed, in liaison with the PP lead
• Ensure that all students details are accurate on our MIS and link students to classes (when there are timetable changes)
• To support the admin team and Data Manager where needed

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• To advise the school on strategies to promote the regular and punctual attendance of all students and assist with the implementation of strategies
• Meet with school staff, students and parents to identify individual problems and strategies
• To make unsupervised contact with families in response to allocated referrals, i.e. home visits and/or meetings in school
• To establish the reason for non-attendance, make assessments and agree a plan for facilitating a return to school using appropriate strategies within specified timescales
• To understand the legislation and law relating to student attendance and initiate appropriate legal action with Educational Welfare Service (EWS) to ensure the school is carrying out its statutory responsibility in respect of students. This will include preparing statements, attending and presenting evidence or request the issuing of penalty notice fines or other legal sanctions and completion of Common Assessment Form (CAF) referrals.
• Represent Dene Magna at relevant meetings
• To understand and be knowledgeable about how Pupil Premium works within a school
• To be fully aware of and carry out all work in line with Child Protection procedures
• Ensure that data is correct and the figures given to Head of Houses and the PP lead are 100% accurate. Report any concerns, errors or issues to our Assistant Head, Pastoral and Data Manager
• Take pride in Dene Magna’s attendance figures and champion the cause of raising attendance
• Present attendance data in a meaningful way so that appropriate staff can take action
• To actively diminish the difference between PP students and their peers
• To manage staff absence and organise cover lessons utilising the bank of supply staff and teachers available on a daily basis
• To manage requests for holidays, discretionary leave and other absence from work (automated system)

What the school offers its staff

In return, we can offer:

• Professional, passionate and dedicated teaching and support staff, who are willing and eager to undertake continuous professional development.
• Talented, stimulating and enthusiastic students with a desire to learn.

We believeit is only right that we balance the challenges that we set, with an understanding that gets the best out of someone; which means valuing them and nurturing them. We are fully aware that a passionate, supported and well directed team will go on to achieve great things.

As a Trust we provide:

1.Competitive salary and clarity in the performance management process.

2.The opportunityto take on short or long term roles within the Trust that help us along our journey.

3.The ability to work with teachers and children from other countries as part of Dene Magna'sInternational School offer.

4.Comprehensive new staff induction.

5.Full support for CPD and a career mapping tool to facilitate this.

6.Free onsite parking.

7.On site dining room.

8.Free use of theonsite Gym at Dene Magna.

9.A termly prize draw for staff.

This information is not necessarily a comprehensive definition of the post. It will be reviewed at least once a year and may be subject to modification or amendment at anytime after consultation with the holder of the post.

The duties may be varied to meet the changing demands of the Trust at the reasonable discretion of the Trustees.

This information does not form part of the contract of employment. It describes the way the post holder is expected and required to perform and complete the particular duties.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Dene Magna School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1006 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dene Magna School website
• Email address: vacancies@fodt.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dene-magna-school-mitcheldean

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